About a week or so ago I decided to email full tilt to see if they're interested in sponsoring me for the Aussie Millions this year (lol selloutaments). This is the email I sent them:

"I'm not sure this is the right email address for this, so if there's abetter person to send this to please forward it to them.

Hi, I'm Jimmy Fricke, and I took 2nd in the Aussie Millions tournamentlast year and received a large amount of television coverage. I'mcoming back for all the tournaments this year, and was curious if FullTilt would be interested in sponsoring me in some of the events or maybethe main event in exchange for wearing full tilt gear and maybe someother things. I'm unaffiliated with all sites right now and I have abunch of friends coming to the tournament who are strong onlinetournament players who also have no affiliation. Let me know if you'reinterested in doing business.

Take care,Jimmy."

I got a response a little bit later saying that they don't respond to every message about solicitations, blah blah blah, but they'll contact me if they're interested. This message just popped up in my inbox:

"Thank you for your interest in becoming a member of Full Tilt Poker.Unfortunately FTP does not take open solicitations from players wishing tojoin the team. It is an invite only process that does not have setstandards or qualifications. In the future, if we are interested inadding you as a FTP representative we will contact you directly. We wishyou the best of luck and we hope to see you at a final table soon.

JD"

I'm like okay, whatever, I had to expect it. I peruse the rest of the email and discover that this genius had included an email that Howard Lederer sent to him regarding his final decision. This is that email:

It surprises me very little that Full Tilt has incompetent employees who could make this happen. Thanks Full Tilt, I won't be conducting business with you in the future even if you want me to.

My email to Howard (at his new email no less) contained the above email plus:

"You should probably tell your employees not to send out correspondence with you when they're rejecting an offer from someone. Seems like it'd be bad for business. Professionalism first, eh? Look forward to playing in your tournament."

So, to sum up.

Beat: Am a freak and a very weird dude.Brag: Howard Lederer's email.Variance: Pls to be signing me stars?